Abstract
The maximum credible accident is defined as the mos serious accident which one can conceive without involving any physical impossibility, within the frame of hypotheses which have a probability of occurence considered as not negligible.
In the case of the tritium laboratory this accident is defined as a fire which would destroy the different rooms and release to the atmosphere all the tritium contained in the laboratory ; the quantity of tritium supposed to be in the laboratory when the fire starts is the maximum foreseeable quantity with respect to the existing installations.
In the case of the tritium laboratory this accident is defined as a fire which would destroy the different rooms and release to the atmosphere all the tritium contained in the laboratory ; the quantity of tritium supposed to be in the laboratory when the fire starts is the maximum foreseeable quantity with respect to the existing installations.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | SCK CEN |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| State | Published - Jul 1964 |
Publication series
| Name | SCK CEN Reports |
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| Publisher | SCK CEN |
| No. | BLG-280 |